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...emotions-incredulity, pity, horror - born of the event; and with more jagged emotions that the event brings to the surface. And always, beyond the emotions that darken the scene, there is the knowledge that in a few hours, a few minutes, a few seconds, there will come a knock on the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Exeter and Andover can be counted on for the best in Prep School competition. Lack of long banes of exams and reading periods which knock the glue out of extensively polished techniques give the school boys team work and condition...

Author: By Rubrio J. Shortshot, | Title: Lining Them Up | 1/20/1948 | See Source »

...come up with carefully integrated plans. It was apparent that real unification had not yet taken place in the services. If it had, it would have meant "an enormous opportunity for savings," said the report, which, in a restrained fashion, recommended that Secretary of Defense James Forrestal should knock some heads together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: For A-Day | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...Stimson, every decision could be measured by a single yardstick: did it help knock Germany out of the war? The best news he had heard after two years of war was the message Franklin Roosevelt carried home from Teheran in 1943: "I have thus brought OVERLORD (the Normandy landings plan) back to you safe and sound on the ways for accomplishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The Quarrels of Brothers | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

While Father X talked, there came a knock on the door. A young, weatherbeaten face peered in. "You have a package for me?" asked Father X. "All right, bring it in." A moment later three young men appeared, grunting under the weight of a long package. It was pointed at one end, wide and flat at the other. Toward the pointed end was a bulge-just where the feet of a machine gun fold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: In a World of Wolves | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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